Visual Source Safe problem

[uncleroydee]

After installing Visual Source Safe to our development server we have started getting the following error:
"The options file was not written successfully. Check that the disk is writeable and that there is enough room on the disk." After uninstalling and reinstalling Source Safe I continue to get the error.

Visual Interdev doesn't keep any of the Source Control connection changes that we make during a session.

I realize this is not a Source Safe forum, but I appreciate any advice.

Thanks,

Roy

 

[palbano]

> development server

More information about the 'server' environment.

-pete

 

[uncleroydee]

NT 4, SP6a, IIS 4, VI Server Components, and FP98 (FP 2000 Server extensions). 2GB "C" drive with 200 +/- MB free space 40 GB+ free on the "E" drive.

Since first posting I've discovered that we can no longer write to our Interdev files so I have removed all Visual Source Safe and the Interdev client from the server, but have left the Interdev server components. Next step is to reinstall SP 6 and Front Page Server extensions.

Thanks for your time on this.

Roy

 

[palbano]

NT 4 Server?

It sounds like a permissions problem. Check all your folders and file permissions for the VS product after installation.

Good luck
-pete

 

[uncleroydee]

Things went from bad to worse; now, after major surgery, they're better.
It seemed to be a problem with the FP Server Extensions (FP2000 extensions), so I eventually removed and reinstalled the Windows Options pack (IIS, etc.) Visual SourceSafe, Interdev and FP Server Extensions. Tried the easy way the first time and nothing changed; then went through the registry and removed all references to the offending apps, then reinstalled and everything seems to be working. Except...

I can create solutions in Interdev and configure source control and all is well; my co-worker cannot, even though all settings appear to be the same, she has an administrator account on the server and she's in the SourceSafe database (there is only one), IIS is set to allow Anonymous and Basic authentication. She gets the error:&quot;Cannot update the file...Server error: Source Control System failure: User <username> not found&quot;

I'm perplexed X-)

Thanks for the response.

 

[LeonelSanchezJr]

Did you ever get Visual SourceSafe to work with your Visual InterDev?

The reason I'm asking is because I am trying to set it up for our Web Developers. We've already encountered the first problem.

I installed VSS on the web developer's local box and they can not add their project to VSS. We get an error which reads something to the effect of &quot;web server does not have VSS installed on it&quot;.

Is it even worth the trouble?

Please advise...

 

[uncleroydee]

I can't answer for you whether it's &quot;worth the trouble&quot; but if you need source control that is tied in with Visual Interdev then it's probably your best bet.

My first instinct for your situation is that you did not install the VSS Server components. I would check that first.

I think that all of my problems stemmed from rights issues and system accounts. I would caution you to be very careful in that area.

Good luck.

UR

 

[MerlinB]

We have had much fun getting VSS to work. It seems OK now - even with Dreamweaver too. There are quite a few articles in MSDN (

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com)

but you need to:

* Add anonymous user to VSS
* Give read-only permission to anonymous user for each web site
* Each developer to have write permissions to each web site(!) - and to the VSS program/DLL and database directories.
* Install Front Page Server extensions - some versions are better than others. Consult microsoft MSDN!

http://www.websitedesign.co.uk

http://www.zentext.com

(Content Management)